No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.